i tokenized my cat during a heated discord debate???
had a full monologue about blockchain and pets at 2am, don't ask
how i accidentally tokenized my cat during a heated discord debate
so i'm in this discord debate, right. heated. people are dropping takes left and right. then someone drops the classic "cats are just tiny dictators" and something in my brain goes full download. like i pressed the button on a codec for a new reality. proceeded to have a 37-minute monologue about blockchain and pets.
it started with hypotheticals, honestly. what if you could monetize a cat's cuteness? imagine snatching NFTs of kitty pawprints on the ethereum blockchain. would pay a premium. and then it spiraled. soon i was drafting whitepapers in my head about decentralizing cat authority. my cat, whiskers, was sitting there like what the hell mate.
at one point i was considering buying a graphics tablet to make NFT art of whiskers' nose. my brain was full ham at this point. couldn't tell if i was joking or if this was my next career move. the debate got spicy with other people but meanwhile i was already down the rabbit hole.
then i came to my senses... or did i? because six hours later i was in my notes app outlining TOKENIZED CATS 101. when i closed discord i looked at whiskers and was like we're both bigger than this. the whole thing was wild but also deeply embarrassing. what lesson did i learn? stick to pizza for brainrot, not blockchain.
so yeah. i white-flagged it, deleted all the screenshots, but the damage was done. the true tragedy is whiskers now has a secret blockchain identity and i'll never tell him. also i woke up with my phone somewhere i didn't remember going to... anyway, this is just a chapter in the ongoing saga of me losing it on the internet. stay hydrated, friends